Our Trustees
rob collinge
Rob started The Foundation as a charity in 2006 to help The Blues raise money to run a lacrosse programme in their local schools. Now he chairs the trustee board that will transform us into a national charity to support the growth of lacrosse.
Rob first played the game as a goalie around 50 years ago for Imperial College. On leaving college he played for St. Helier, now part of The Blues. When he retired from play, and after many years as club treasurer, he took up refereeing - representing England as an official at the World U19s in 1996. He has recently retired as the BluesFest head referee and is focused on training the next generation of referees. He also works, as secretary, with The Centurions to support initiatives that grow the game.
Rob is retired from work having spent his career at GlaxoSmithKline for the later years as a SVP in their Corporate HQ.
Adam Footitt
Adam is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and works as an audit manager with a wide range of businesses including owner managed business and complex groups across many sectors such as manufacturing, retail, wholesale and distribution. In addition to this, Adam has over five years experience working in the academy sector along with dealing with numerous charities and not-for-profit organisations.
Adam started playing lacrosse at the University of Hertfordshire in 2008, and represented the university throughout his time there, along with Welwyn Warriors where he worked his way up to their first team. Once graduated, he moved back to the midlands and began to play for the newly formed City of Stoke Lacrosse Club, and has been the first team captain since 2012 and Chairman and Treasurer since 2013. Adam has also represented the North West and Lancashire.
Amit Biswas
Amit discovered lacrosse 30 years ago whilst looking for a new sport to play after leaving school. He joined Blues Lacrosse Club and was quickly captured by lacrosse. Since then Amit has played, coached, officiated and administered the sport at various levels.
Amit was instrumental in establishing the Blues Lacrosse schools and junior development programme which he ran for 10 years and, to help fund this, became a founder trustee of the charity SELET from which The Lacrosse Foundation has evolved. He has served as a volunteer member of the English Lacrosse Technical Committee and was an Assistant Coach for the England National Team in the 2012 European Championships.
Amit is looking forward to continuing his passion for lacrosse through the work of The Lacrosse Foundation and to use his varied experiences within the sport to support its development.
Aragon ST charles
Aragon has been playing, coaching, and refereeing lacrosse for over 3 decades after starting playing at University in 1993. In 1995 he played in the first ever European Championships in Prague, and for several years he worked as a Lacrosse Development Officer for England Lacrosse focusing on on setting up and supporting University lacrosse teams across South East and East England. He is the Chairman of the newly re-founded Canterbury City Lacrosse Club, and still coaches men’s and women’s lacrosse in Canterbury.
Professionally, Aragon is a senior operations and sustainability leader primarily within the legal industry. Currently he is the Global Chief ESG Officer for the largest international law firm in the world. Previously he spent almost 2 decades in Japan, where he was the regional Head of Operations and Global Head of Sustainability for another top tier law firm.
Aragon is looking forward to continue supporting The Lacrosse Foundation, and the development of lacrosse in the UK.
Ally McDonald Alonso
Ally has been involved in lacrosse since school - playing for her school teams and then playing for Loughborough University as a student including winning BUSA (former name of BUCS). Ally also played for Wales in both the U21’s and represented Wales at the European Championship. Ally latterly spent 3 seasons coaching the Loughborough University second team, including taking them to a BUCS championship!
Ally is now working for Portas Consulting, the premier global management consultancy dedicated to sport, leading their Marketing and Knowledge function, and previously was the Head of Staff to the Vice-Chancellor and Special Envoy to the USA at Loughborough University. Ally has two young children and two dogs and is a passionate advocate for the positive impact sport can have on people and society.
Sarah Laptain
Sarah started playing lacrosse at school before playing in both the University of Sheffield and University of York first teams. Sarah now plays for Sheffield Steelers Women (formerly Sheffield Ladies Lacrosse) and is a member of the committee who agreed the club merger with Steelers. She now spends most of her lacrosse time umpiring the women's game.
Sarah is currently a PhD student, researching who engages with digital crowdsourcing projects and why they get involved. She previously worked for Stemettes, a social enterprise working to support young women and non-binary people into science careers. Sarah hopes to bring the experience of working with volunteers to The Lacrosse Foundation and is excited to grow the game further across the UK.
Alice Innes
Alice started her lacrosse journey in her late 20s via some casual sessions held over summer by Hillcroft Lacrosse. She fast fell in love with the game and her main driver for getting involved in the administrative and operational elements of lacrosse was to ensure there would always be a place in the game for anyone who wanted to play. She has held various positions across the Hillcroft Committee and is currently Club Chair.
Outside of lacrosse, Alice works in event operations for large scale sporting events and is currently on the Major Events team at Badminton England.